Amiel Stevenson

Amiel Stevenson was an NAACP representative in Mississippi during the 1980s. In 1984, he was brought to Canton by Reverend Isaiah Street with the goal of persuading Reverend Ollie Agee to fund the hiring of a black lawyer to represent Carl Lee Hailey during his murder trial, as the NAACP felt that the white lawyer Jake Brigance did not understand the civil rights movement.